The best live performance to watch is the one in Pompeii. A band at the height of their powers in perfect alignment with each other, playing to the classical statues and almost invoking the ancient spirits of the place; "awe-inspiring" is an overused phrase, but it is applicable there.

@johngolden5257

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! One of the greatest performance films ever!

@WELLBRAN

Жыл бұрын

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@mike.mch.1014

Жыл бұрын

for me the best performance was Gdańsk best video and last wright live

One of the most incredible compositions ever by any band, this amazing piece of music should be listened to in a dark room with black lights and posters, it is a trip into itself and ended many a Saturday night in my life. You should also listen to it live, at both Pompeii and on David Gilmour's last solo tour with Rick Wright Wright with him, they do Echoes for the last time live at Gdansk. Both those versions you should hear, see music that is timeless being made live, it is shocking for modern audiences to see. Enjoy! ♩🎸🎹🎵

@DarwinsChihuahua

Жыл бұрын

I'll second that.

@lifelover515

Жыл бұрын

Spot on, Vic - you picked out my two favourite live performances of this epic track.

@ia1530

Жыл бұрын

Care to tell us the kind of strain that was employed in the “dark room,” which “…ended many a Saturday night…?” LOL! That sounds like fun. Though green room is more preferred than dark room. Maybe we should ask either David or Roger if they care about touring for a new album: Lost Sedated Dreams of Pompeii. Liked your comments.

@vicprovost2561

Жыл бұрын

@@ia1530 50 years ago it might have been Acapulco Gold or maybe Thai Stick. Been a long time since I saw either, but the party never really stopped, still listening to Floyd regularly in my retirement.

@ia1530

Жыл бұрын

@@vicprovost2561 Two awesome 5 stars !

You know it's gonna be a good day when you start it off with Verdy and Floyd. Whew come on

@gliebzeit

Жыл бұрын

Definitely, whew come on. Keep on exploring music, VERDY.

This is great when you see the 1970's live from Pompeii version.

You absolutely must see the "Live in Pompeii" version!!!

Btw there's a version of this synchronized with the end of the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey 😉 And not to mention Pink Floyd Echoes Live at Pompeii 1972 where the guys perform in the empty Roman Amphitheatre, No lights, No Pyrotechnics, No Audience just musical genius 😉

The "screaming seagull" sounds were created by plugging Gilmour's Stratocaster guitar through a wha-wha pedal backwards. Plugged in normally, the wha pedal (also branded a CryBaby pedal) acts like a pedal controlled tone knob. Someone discovered if you plugged the guitar into the OUTPUT jack of the pedal then plugged the pedal INPUT jack to the amp, it would create that screaming sound which could be varied in pitch with the pedal.

Hey, Verdy The song mainly deals with the theme of empathy. Recognizing the humanity in each other and acting accordingly. It explores some other existential themes as well. The scary part is supposed to give the feeling of being underwater. The bird sounds are supposed to be whale song. If you listen to humpback whale song, it's very similar. It goes along with some of the marine imagery of the beginning verse. Great react! Regards to 🇨🇦 from 🇺🇸! 🤘😎 PS: The title is pronounced like medal. The cover photo is a human ear in water. And yes, that is a soccer crowd. They are singing "You'll Never Walk Alone". Also, Tropez is pronounced like Tropay. Seamus is pronounced like Shame-us. It was one of Gilmour's dogs.

Can still remember the first time I heard this - can't remember what day it is but I remember that ! some bands just hit different and no other band has hit like Pink Floyd

@NicoleTedesco

Ай бұрын

My mother bought me the album for my birthday. She knew I would love it, and she was right.

One of the greatest pieces of music ever composed and played. Right up there with Beethoven, Mozart….

Talk about a vibe and mood. I used to put this on when I went to sleep. The masters of sonic intoxication!!!

now you gotta do live at pompeii and see them do it live 🤯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔥🌍🫂

Pink Floyd have create many Songs that by Masterpieces, but for me "echoes" was the Song that is on Top off all. The lyrics and the composion are absolutely unmachted. It is the highest piece of Art in Musikbuisness and History. When People listen to it in 100 Years, the will blown away, it is timeless. This Musik is from another World and tear out your Soul and penetrate it and but it back to your Body. I´m a Pink Floyd fan for decates and "echoes" is the crown jewel auf the entire Music History. Absolutely exceptional.... Greetings from germany

@m.jodeit6935

Жыл бұрын

So sieht's aus, du hast es erkannt!

This whole album gives me goosebumps! One of their albums that isn't spoken about a lot. Obscured by Clouds is another one. Love me some Floyd.

Gilmour's at 8:25 reminds me of looking at down at rock layers in the Grand Canyon, back through time, hundreds of millions of years ago.

Back in the 70s in the US, was lucky enough to have the radio on to hear a BBC broadcast of a live performance of this. They were every bit as good as on the album.

Echoes is the closure of their space rock era, it has all the elements, improvisation, lots of experimentation with sounds and keyboards. Yet is well crafted, planned, and monumental. It has elements of German kraut rock, specially the electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. P. S. Maybe one day you'll react to Echoes, but Camel's Echoes. Another prog rock band of the 70s, vastly under rated but right up there with PF, Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson. The piano at the end is not part of the song. Echoes end with the wind. Idk where that piano came from XD

@gozamite

Жыл бұрын

I think quite many of those who is listening Pink Floyd they also know Tangerine Dream... Or at least they should know!

@polferiferus1938

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, in all my years hearing Echoes I never heard the piano bit at the end. Was wondering if it was an alternate pressing or something. VERY strange and unexpected!

Pink Floyd is a class of it's own. Their albums are pure trips - from the beginnig to the end Imho the greatest band ever.

I like the long side on Atom Heart Mother even more than this. Meddle is wonderful but the middle section feels a little alienating. I'm sure it's meant to feel that way but I like the way Atom Heart mother flows and yet it's constantly surprising.

@LuddyVonBeat

Жыл бұрын

I feel the experimental part on atom heart mother is less subtle then on Echoes

This is the best song ever written and for 40 years I want it to be played on my funeral :D

the middle section with all the strange sounds is all richard wright on keyboards. he created some of the most wonderful soundscapes ever recorded. it was such a great loss when he passed away. a lot of the "pink floyd sound" is owed to his brilliance.

All art forms are subjective of course. That being said; this has to be one of the best compositions ever pressed into plastic in recording history. Have been listening to this album for around thirty years, on and off, and I still get chills and goosebumps hearing it. Nice to see you having a similar reaction. The Live at Pompeii film is truly epic!

I got to see them do this live & it was absolutely incredible. The music kind of rolls of the stage & right over the audience. It was a melt in your seat kind of thing.

Around 4:28 is where Andrew Lloyd Webber got the theme to Phantom of the Opera.

Great reaction Verdy! An entire album side dedicated to an incredibly musically transformative song. The early vocal part of Echoes is an extremely lonely song that rips the heart out of me even more as an aging lonely man than it did when I was a lonely teen using fury and rage to try to cover how scared I was in my loneliness. The tonal switch from the early portion of the song where the guitar and keyboards really carried the song to the middle where the bass and drums are the core of the music with the keyboards, guitar, and FX supplementing instead of overshadowing the rhythm section is a nice change of pace that provides a more driving energy. The shift into the almost exclusive FX portion of the song, which really foreshadowed their future experimentation, could have been a jumbled mess of "WTF is this?' but Pink Floyd made it not just tolerable but they made it really work with this part still feeling like it is musically telling a story: alien and mysterious, perhaps beyond the capacity of mortal minds to fully understand, but complex and deep all the same. It evokes imagery that is hard to explain, but the 'creepy horror kind of vibe' you refer to shows that you do understand exactly what they're trying to show you in the music. The 'jump scare is coming' feeling you mention is a very accurate way of expressing the method and manner that they're instilling before we come back to the soft keyboard underlay and the single echoing note from the beginning that returns us from the edge of nightmare to more familiar territory. Then we're back into the vocals which, again, tear the heart out of me before the energy of the song carries us to the softly drifting music right before the increasing rising intensity of the coda. I can't express the magnificence I found in this song. The way it tells a story, even when it doesn't use lyrics, and the way it takes us along on a trip to places where we can't quite grasp where we are and we're not sure it is safe to be. Just pure brilliance. As others mention, the film shot at Pompeii to this song is equally amazing and is well worth a watch. At times one can forget how amazing Pink Floyd was, but one listen and I am reminded and taken right back to the amazing musical realms they made for us.

“Echoes” is such an iconic piece! Now you have to watch Pink Floyd performing “Echoes” live in Pompeii in 1972. Note that all videos are divided between “Part I” and “Part II”.

Congratulations for your work on all the songs and reactions. I do hope new generation will show some interest in songs from the 70s. Do not give up!👊👊👊

What an incredible journey this song takes you on. Absolutely brilliant!

And if you watch Echoes at Pompeii, you’ll witness one of the greatest drum performance of all time.

The only advice I can give is to watch the movie by Pink Floyd called "Live at Pompeii" where they play this in the amphitheatre to a crowd of only the remains of people preserved in stone after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

First time listening to Floyd ??? I listen everyday and not stoping ever again !!

Loved this reaction - I had never heard that piano bit at the end of echoes before !

@ianfortier6796

Жыл бұрын

@Robert Jones - That's not part of the song. I think the uploaded of the video included a snippet of their own music at the tail end. It's misleading for new listeners but that being said I quite enjoyed the piano bit as a stand alone piece of music.

The first time I got stoned in my life 50 odd years ago I listed to this album. It was a happening.

Perhaps you might like David Gilmour’s version of this song live… either live Gdańsk or The Royal Albert Hall. I’ve seen this song live in the 70’s during the Wish You Were Here Tour. It’s visually stunning.

I know a lot of comments here have suggested watching the Pompeii version of Echoes, and while it is definitely something to watch, I'd recommend and love to see you react to the live in Gdansk version, the last time David Gilmour performed Echoes with Rick Wright. The way David and Rick play together at the end is nothing short of sublime, and the performance as a whole is something that is a pleasure and an honour to watch. I promise you won't be disappointed if you choose to watch it.

@MDElam

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. While the Pompeii version is good, the Gdansk performance is too. Both are worth checking out.

Verdy come on echoes pink floyd who could ask for anything more just what anybody can ask for great reaction verdy there’s music 🎶 out there come on your lady enjoy the classic floyd doing a classic track beautiful just listening to this again like it was yesterday thank you for turning back the time to when I first head this album 💿 take care my dear friend bye 👋

I saw David Gilmour live in Toronto around 2005 on his On An Island tour. He finished the concert with this song. It’s one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had

@chemo2swhyte262

Жыл бұрын

....echoes . Upon .. a thrust . Magical . Transition .. gives yu strength n .. inspiration .. . It collects yu brings joy yu can't b .lost feel n . That ... dance 2 it's happiness .. its the difference .. . Feel it . Really feel it . The faith it offers . Magnificent .. Vincent.. Dublin ire ....

This piece is Pink Floyd's most astounding epic. I always feel like I have journeyed from the sea to being lost on some remote island in the fog, and then the light breaks through the fog and we are brought back, and then hurled up into the sky, spiraling away with the wind.... I was asking myself that same question about the drums on each side as I was listening. It sounds like the one kit, but they made a stereo split so that the second drum track on the right is a micro-second later. It was an innovative way of getting a stereo effect by a making a simple analog transfer of the performance from one reel to another and then the two are panned R and L and mixed with a slight delay. I noticed that many early and mid-70s albums did this same trick with vocal tracks to give the lead vocals a dominating, stereo prescence R and L. But it also works so well with Nick's drum parts , doesn't it??

We played this song in a high school Battle of the Bands in the 80s lol. People were stunned. You HAVE TO hear Pink Floyds "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict". Its crazy

Echoes live from pompeii is simply amazing

The piano part at the end of echoes was _not_ on the album

@fewwiggle

2 жыл бұрын

That was weird -- where do you think it came from?

@billoverson2263

2 жыл бұрын

@@fewwiggle It would seem to have been added by the person who uploaded the video to KZread. Here's the source link; kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGidz8Fscduvipc.html

@andythecrimson8877

Жыл бұрын

@Bill Overson yeah you right, I never heard it in the album.

You can understand why Andrew Lloyd Webber pinched that riff for the West End musical stage show - The Phantom of the Opera😉

@gradyfilms2458

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and he also pinched a theme from Selling England By The Pound. Somewhere on side two but I can't remember exactly where.

The bit you said sounded like a scream was actually a guitar with leads to the Wah Wah pedal plugged in back to front. It was a mistake but they liked it so they used it. I've done it by mistake myself and scared the crap out myself. It was really loud.

Ahhhhh, enfin ca fait longtemp que j'attendais que tu ecoute cette chanson 😀

Excellent young lady, enjoyed that and can't wait for your next choice of music reaction, cross my fingers for some 'RUSH', thanks and cheers to you

The live Pompeii version of this is simply a must see Verdy! Thanks again for sharing your Floyd experience 😁. Cheers!

@paulkazakoff9231

Жыл бұрын

C'mon Verdy a must reaction - POMPEII !!

@justinthyme5382

Жыл бұрын

SMOKIN!!!

There is a very disturbing sound in the background, sounds like the fan of your computer. Maybe you can fix that for the future. Besides this, I really like your reactions to the Floyd. So nice to see you young people getting hooked to the greatest band to ever play on this planet! You MUST react to live at Pompeii! The version of Echos they played there was even better, and Set the controls and Careful with that axe are not from this world! I think, you would like it.

@florentmartiniere

24 күн бұрын

It defo is a fan noise ... but it also seems she's becoming a fan so ...

a class album. thank you young lady.

One of their best groves in the mid part!

Awesome choice! Enjoying the journey! … Also, AWESOME WandaVision shirt!

they did a live performance of this in pompeii in the early 70's i thnik, with no audience and filmed it, just them and the crew filming, if you like this one, youll LOVE that one, its a video so even better

Sublime - now watch Pink Floyd ‘Live At Pompeii’ with us, Verdy ✨

I was at the Pink Floyd concert in Newcastle City Hall 1972, it was brilliant.

Deepest lyrics of any song.

Echos....a true David Gilmour and Richard Wright masterpiece.

@SDsailor7

7 ай бұрын

Agreed

You should check out Live in Pompeii, you'll see a pretty different version to the album, sounds like an earlier version to me.

I first listened to this song while doing work and just half paying attention. My mind was completely blown even the chorus came back at the end. I thought I was on a different song.

Great reaction! I'm looking forward to your reaction to Atom Heart Mother!

Echoes is my favorite track by my favorite band - it transports me to the furthest reaches of my mind's imagination. It is our past, our present, and our future: the curiosity and will to crawl out of the primordial soup, our evolution to realize our potential, and the existential question of what we do with it going forward - continue on our own selfish path of self gratification or to see the humanity in each other and re-join the universe in harmony.

Ah, headphones, turn off the lights...youth well spent. Great reviews...I wonder of the music she has listened to what if any she returns to? Having heard this when it came out I still enjoy it 50+ years on. What Verdy retains is indeed, a classic.

Nick Mason(Pink Floyd's drummer) came to my country with his band ,,Echoes Tour':. Originally should have been in 2020, but because of you know it was this year. I took. Acid, it was Soo awesome to hear the old Pink Floyd songs from the Barret erra, Attom , Obscured by ☁️ and Meddle

Echoes, extraordinary ☮️♥️🙏💎🇦🇷

I worked for an audio company in the mid 70's. A couple of good ole boy Truck drivers came in to listen to speakers. We had a pair of JBL studio monitors designed for bands and large venues. I told them, this is your lucky day, because I happen to have the new Willie Nelson album. I put meddle on the turntable and cranked the McIntosh amp up to 11. They sat motionless in director's chairs for the whole side. When it finished, they were sweating. I asked for their opinion. One couldn't talk and the other said, I never herred Willie play like that. A lot of fun!

I remember an interview with them where they said the wind machine is the one effect that has been on every album from Piper at the Gates of Dawn to Division Bell

You definitely have to listen to the Pompeii version

You're reactions to my fave band are wonderful cutie!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿♥️

..... "I am you and what I see is me" ...... Brilliant, Roger.

Echoes is along with the albums Dark Side of the Moon abd Wish you were here, the most beautiful thing Pink Floyd ever wrote. Do watch the Live in Pompeii. The version of Echoes in it is even more beautiful.

@gforce4063

Жыл бұрын

Well,you got one right

@davidmeir9348

Жыл бұрын

@@gforce4063 You misunderstood what i meant. Of course the album is Meddle, what i meant is that dark side and wish you were here as a whole were the best things they ever done, along with the song Echoes. I just didn't specify the word song so my comment might be a bit confusing

@hugo888888888

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmeir9348 The first message was very clear, not need a second one.

Richard and David doing the call and answer play. Nice reaction Verdy.

Masterpiece...the great masterpiece of rock

That guitar part you kept picking out is so great that Andrew Lloyd Webber stole that whole part for the theme to Phantom Of The Opera

Echoes / meddle was used in a few surfing films in 70s 80s

Echoes is faded out. You better check the complete song.

got to see them do this live twice in small intimate settings before DSotM came out and they went mega

Echoes is so iconic of PF. It probably launched them into stardom and moulded their music into what was to come from them. It is beautiful. I know I was hooked after hearing this in my teens. Don't damage your ears, but listen to this at 11! The intro is like sonar from a warship "pinging" for submarines...then later on you get the same ping and a return signal, or echo. Yep, you looked petrified halfway through.

From around 12:30, so much of this sounds like Hendrix's 1983, A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE... from his Electric Ladyland album of 1963. To me it sounds sub-aquatic, like whale songs.

@gforce4063

Жыл бұрын

Interesting

I like Pink Floyd's Learning To Fly. been missing your Band Maid reacts

It was one drummer, but the drums were recorded with various microfoons, which then were mixed together left or right in the studio. O. and you held on pretty strong during the scary part, every time I listen to Floyd I don't know if i cry of sadness or happiness, but it could be the wine.

@frankshailes3205

Жыл бұрын

I always think that bit sounds like sea birds calling to each other. Which kind of fits the imagery earlier in the lyrics, though the coral caves and sounds spoken of there could as easily refer to the ear (like the LP cover)...

@LuddyVonBeat

Жыл бұрын

@@frankshailes3205 Hi that seems a valid interpretation, also the sound of wales, nevertheless it has a haunting soundscape.

In the late 60s and the early 70s, let's say in the period from 1967-1976, many great bands made a lot of great albums, not just Genesis and Pink Floyd, the ones you reacted to. In the USA you had The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, in Great Britain you had Yes, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Van der Graaf Generator and Hawkwind, in Germany you had Amon Düül II, Can, Embryo, Eloy and Guru Guru, in France you had Magma, Gong and Ange, in the Netherlands you had Focus and Golden Earring, in Italy you had Premiata Forneria Marconi, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Goblin, in Switzerland you had Brainticket, and that's just naming a few of the most important ones. All of these bands experimented a lot; rock music never again was as exciting as back then. Van der Graaf Generator have to be especially named because 4 weeks before "Meddle" was released they released "Pawn Hearts", an album that like "Meddle" had a 23 minutes song (it was called "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers") with passages that like the spooky passage in the middle of "Echoes" sounded like being out of a horror movie. At some point towards the beginning of the song two ships collide in the fog. You hear the two different foghorns sounding in intervals that get shorter and shorter until both sound at the same time upon which the ships collide and sink.

Masterpiece.

Now that you've got "Echoes" under your belt, as anyone who appreciates music should, it's time to tackle the other book end to this era: the Atom Heart Mother Suite. It's another 20-odd minute song and rather more accessible than "Echoes". Instrumental, A bit psychedelic, it's time.

Seeing this performed live was such a great treat. Gotta say Floyd puts on the best live show in music. Or at least they did when they toured. Last time I saw 'em live was the Division Bell/Pulse tour. Still remember every minute. Well, sorta. I was in the ozone for sure (wink). Please visit more early Floyd. The music prior to this album is often forgotten. Just be careful with that axe! Always glad to see a new generation enjoying the music I was able to get into when it came out. Cheers....

@michelfroggy56

Жыл бұрын

I had that opportunity when I saw the wish you were here tour and Echoes was the encore, this was after they had performed Dark side of the Moon and Wish you were here in their integral versions. The best concert I ever attended.

@bazzer124

Жыл бұрын

@@michelfroggy56 Glad you had the chance to see 'em live. I missed that tour. Did see the Dark Side, Animals and Division Bell/Pulse tour. Cannot find proper words for the awesomeness of those shows. Cheers....

@jonathansmith3742

Жыл бұрын

I caught The Wall in 1980 at Nassau. It ranks as the Greatest Show on Earth.

You must do 'Atom Heart Mother' next/soon.

It's a great album pink floyd are brilliant

In this song we clearly hear the voice of keyboard singing ( ric Wright ) highlight , despiste gilmour also sings at the same time ....

One of the best ever rock compositions. The bass line was ripped off by Andrew Lloyd Webber as the main theme of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. I introduced probably the first performance of this - what a privilege! For me Gdańsk and the last performance ever is the finest version with David and Rick Wright riffing off each other. Sadly Rick died not that long after - the undersung essential part of the PINK FLOYD sound. Not only for keyboards because it is him harmonising more often than Roger.

@PeckiePeck

Жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that Roger Waters did hear the ripoff in "Phantom of the Opera" but just didn't feel like suing. I appreciated his willingness to let it go.

@grahamhowes6904

Жыл бұрын

@@PeckiePeck I heard that to - he just couldn’t be bothered to pursue it

Ah echoes..magnifique...magnifique...

This is a wonderful achievement for Pink Floyd, a stunning song, you should watch the live at Pompeii version, actually the whole concert is worth watching, it's great pre- darkside Floyd

@13:04, David Gilmour reversed the connections of his guitar and the wah wah pedal (out of the pedal to guitar, and in of the pedal to the amp) and played with the pedal.

What drives the piece is its blues structure. Many don’t realize that what Pink Floyd really did in their compositions (from Syd onward) was to transition blues from B. B. King to reverb-echo to quadraphonic setting (a real invention). Hence, appropriately named: Pink (Anderson) Floyd (Council), two of the classic blues icons. Find out what B.B. King told the young boy David Gilmour when he met him. That conversation led Gilmour to squeezing multi notes out of one single bend; that’s KBB King. Add measured reverb and non-arp echo and you’ll get Gilmour-with Waters on command of the bass. Echoes should always be remembered as a masterpiece of Richard Wright, RIP, (keyboardist)

Incase no one has mentioned it, the album image is an ear.

Best band ever

Verdy, They recorded in Quadraphonic, the early surround sound, You need 4 speakers in each corner of you room played on a quad system to really hear Pink Floyd at it's best. Headphones only have two speakers. So the sound of the instruments go back and forth.

Only matched by Shine on you Crazy Diamond. All parts.

She’s the big news, here 37 years after the first release Kate Bush “The Hounds of Love” re-enters the charts again, but I would suggest that you listen to her debut album from 1977, “The Kick Inside”. The most talented female artist of the british Isles. Btw “Meddle” was very much a David Gilmour and Richard Wright album. After Wrights passing away Gilmour has stopped playing Echoes.

13:23 "I feel like I'm in horror movie" 😁. When I listened to it for the first time, I was scared. Because I think it's a real scream not the guitar. So I plug off my headphone and go away.😁

Granchester Meadows... go girl.

Live in Pompeii version is even better!!

This is the Grand Masterpiece of all time. Check out Echo's from the John Peel show from 1971 it is there best version. God Bless

I am proud that I can walk 2 kilometers with just one song.